A second Moot initiative aimed at educating locals about what to do in an emergency will kick off soon.
This time it would be for firefighting, said organiser Elaine Koen.
“While we were busy looking for sponsors for our first initiative on first-aid training, we were presented with the idea for firefighting,” she said.
She said the course would teach students what to do in an emergency.
“We hear so much about houses burning down. Just the other day I heard about another one,” she said.
“It is always good to know what to do in such a situation.”
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Koen said the training will be presented by Life Med ambulance services in Danville, she said.
The first lesson would kick off on Saturday.
She said at the end of the course, students would be presented with a certificate.
The 23 students who will be partaking in this course were handpicked, she said.
She said the classes were presented for free.
“I believe that knowledge is power and it is important to equip others with what we know and could teach them,” she said.
“In turn, they could help others.”
About a month ago, Koen and another resident, Frik de Bruin, organised a free first-aid training course.
“Danville and Elandspoort is scattered with substance abusers and we wanted to do something to make a change in the community,” she said during a previous interview.
“I have basic life-support training and we combined the two ideas, which drove us to do this.”
This idea became a concept and quickly took flame from there onward, Elaine said.
“I quickly discovered that one of our youth leaders at church also had basic life-support training and I involved him in the training,” she said.
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The 17 students who attended the first-aid training course received their certificates in June.
However, Koen added that their initiative did not end with the graduation.
“We want to use these graduates to, in time, train others to help each other,” she said.
“Furthermore, these people are also now qualified so they can assist in emergency situations.”
She said ambulances could be everywhere at once.
“They can go out and assist the people until the proper help arrives.”
She said some of the students for the firefighting course also attended the first-aid course.
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